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Royal Gift and two jennets, and General de Lafayette presented 

 him with an importation from the island of Malta consisting of 

 a black jack known as Knight of Malta and several jennets. In 

 1819 the jack Mammoth landed at South Carolina from Spain. 

 Henry Clay of Kentucky in 1827 received from Malta a jennet 

 named Calypso. Two years later Clay imported a Maltese jack 

 named Achilles and later several others, one of which, named 

 Warrior, became noted as a sire. One of the first imported jacks 

 taken to Tennessee was imported about 1840 and was taken to 

 Maury County by a Mr. Thomas. About 1867 or 1868 Messrs. 

 A. C. Franklin and Tul Craig of Sumner County, Tennessee, 

 imported some Catalonian jacks. About 1882 Mr. Lyle of Ken- 

 tucky imported some Andalusians from near Seville, and the 

 same year Leonard Brothers of Missouri made a similar impor- 

 tation. Many importations from Spain, France, and the Balearic 

 and Malta islands have been brought to America since 1884. 



Noted jacks in America are of record back to the days of 

 Washington, as already indicated. The following are a number 

 of animals especially distinguished as sires : 



Warrior, imported by Henry Clay of Kentucky about 1830, 

 proved extremely prepotent and was recognized as the best jack 

 of his time. " So remarkable was his power of transmission," says 

 Colonel I. S. Irvine of Kentucky, 1 that I, or any other jack breeder, 

 can, in a moment, tell if the pedigree of an animal runs back to 

 imported Warrior." 



Mammoth was imported from Catalonia, Spain, in 1819 and 

 landed at Charleston, South Carolina. He was given this name 

 on account of his large size. He was bought by J. I. Brockett 

 of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, and was used in the stud for eight 

 years. His progeny fused especially well with the Clay stock 

 and proved very valuable. Many pedigrees of to-day trace to 

 this sire. 



Buena Vista, a son of Mammoth, was bred by Henry Leer 

 of Bourbon County, Kentucky, and was sold in 1853 for $3000 

 to Major Blythe of Madison County, Kentucky. Anderson and 

 Hooper consider this as the first great jack of potential breeding 

 value produced in America. 



1 Bulletin 212, Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station. 



